Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to explain how individual and strategic firm-level factors, through well-being as a mediating factor, make audit employees more prone to stay within the profession as well as to provide a more holistic picture of why they stay. Methodology: The study is built upon a positivistic standpoint with a deductive approach using a quantitative method where a survey was sent out to Swedish audit employees with at least three years of experience within the profession. The data collected were analyzed by a Harman single factor test, Spearman correlation matrix, and multiple regression analysis. Findings: The findings show that stress resilience, mentorship quality, career opportunities, and commercialization are positively related to the employee’s willingness to stay and are fully mediated through their subjective well-being. Further, the findings show that the individual expectation gap affects the willingness to stay directly and is only partly mediated through the individuals’ subjective well-being. Theoretical perspectives: The profession theory, person-organization fit theory, and motivational theory were applied to explain the variables and the willingness to stay.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:hj-53070 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Davidsson, Oscar, Falck, Frida |
| Publisher | Jönköping University, IHH, Företagsekonomi, Jönköping University, IHH, Företagsekonomi |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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